Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-08-27

AUaAAR DAYS IN PARia


what Famous OLD American Llttersteur Has
to say Of Them
Oliver Wendell Holmes In the September
Atlantic.
The weather was hot We we're tired, and
did not care to 60 to the theatre, II any OF
them we're open. The pleasantest hours
were those or our afternoon drive In the
Champs Elysess and the Bos de Boulovps,
or "the Boulogne Woods, " rs our Ameri
can tailor's wife Of the Old time called the
Place de IL Concorde, two objects in especial
attracted my attention, tho obelisk, which
was lying, when ! LETT it. In the great scOW
which brought 1t from the Nile, and the
statue OF S,rasoourg,all covered with wreaths
aud iisgs How like children these Perissns
do oct crying " A Berlin . Berlin - and
when Berlin comes to Paris, and Stras-
bourg goes back to her old propristors, in
stead OF taxing II quietly, making all this
Eaue E Oh Pstliouc symbols, the display OF
defeat
l was surprised to find the trees in the
Eois dc Bouloene 20 we'll grown: l had an
idea that they had been largely sacrificed in
which deserve special mention are the
shrieking parrots and other birds and the
yelping dogs in the grounds OF the Society of
Acclimat!zAtion-out Of the range OF which
me visitor wiz 30 glad 70 get - soon IS possi.
couples, and their friends, with restaurant
near by, where the bridal party DIM the
health OF the newly married pair, was an Oh
Ject OF curiosity. An unstesdiness Of gait
was obvious In some Of the fsastera Al one
point in the middle OF the road 9 m ~ mad Wss
ninging her arms about and shrieking - II
she were just escaped from Q mad housa But
the drive in the Bois was what made Paris
toleraole There were few nne equipsgea,
and lev distinRuished.looking people in the
carriages, but there were qutet groups BY the
wayeide, seeming happy enough and now
ana then pretty face or . wonderful bonnet
gave variety to the somewhat burgeo,s char.
scter OF the procession OF tscrea
lsupposeI ought to form no opinion at all
about the aspect OF Paris, any more than /
should OF IN oyster In . month without an
IN It. We were neither OF Ms In the best mood
icr sightseeing, and Paris was not sitting up
for company; In fact she WAS ssnot at honeh
Remembering all this, l must say that the
whole appearance OF the city wHs dull and
oreery. London out OF season seemed still
full OF life 1; Paris out OF season looked vscu.
Gus and torpid. The recollection Of the sor-
.sony shs bed passed through % sinoe ~" i sos ieis
King. Win bis old ra1d nd over @ b her. H' roSe 81
upon the high board fence which sur.
rounded the ruins Of the Tuileries.
can understand the impulse which led the
red caps to make . wreck OF this grand
sn.S ..S Ira .sa n,a co. The
| como bsck." But shudder when i think
what "the red fool.fury OF the Seine has
done and 10 believed capable OF doing. /
think nothing has so profoundly Impressed
me a the story of the precautions taken to
preserve the Venus of Milo from the brutal
hands of the mob. A little more violent ac-
cess OF fury, . little more fiery defamation,
Q few more bottles of rin Bleu, and the C;al
lery OF the Louvre, with oil its treasures OF
Art, compared with which the crown Jewels
Just sold are but pretty pebbles, the market
price OF which fairly enough expresses their
vsiue-much more, rather, than their true
vaiue-that noble gallery, with all it, mae
terpieces from the hands Of Greek sculptors
ana Italian painters, would have been
changed in . single night into Q heap of
derA ~'A
love to think that now that the people
have or ct least think they have, the power
IN their own hands, they will outgrow this
form OF madness, which 10 almost entitled 10
the name OF Partisan endemic. Everything
!ooked neeceaole and stupid enough during
the week passed In Paris. But among ali
the foasils which Cuvier found In the Psri.
alan basin, nothing Was more mon strous
than the poissdrdes Of the old revolution, or
the Pefroteuses OF the recent commune, and
lear that the breed is not extinct